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Front entry doors of the Kings arena could fold up for a five-story opening

The final drawings of the NBA Kings' planned $448M downtown arena depict "a see-through building they say captures what is quintessentially Sacramento, without looking quite like anything else" in the area, according to a front-page piece by Bizjak, Kasler & Lillis of the SACRAMENTO BEE. The team yesterday "unveiled final drawings" of the arena to the Sacramento City Council. Architect AECOM "gave the arena a half-block-long front entry dominated by five glass aircraft hangar doors that can fold upward to create a five-story opening, allowing people in the arena plaza and even motorists on nearby J Street to see directly into the facility." The structure's facade is a "distinctive silvery-white series of vertical panels made out of patt ...